Archaeology of Religion, Material Religion, and the Ancient World

Abstract

The concept of “lived religion” has been developed for the description and analysis of contemporary religion, countering the stress on institutionalized religion and its norms. This opening chapter provides an overview of how this book is organized. The book gives an overview over the extensive amount of topics relating to the archaeology of religion, in particular in the Greco-Roman world. For the ancient world, “archaeology of religion” has established itself as a field of interdisciplinary research that presupposes basic methodology on the part of the archaeologists and basic knowledge of the history of religion on the part of ancient historians and scholars of religion during the past decade. The book aims at developing an appreciation of the different dimensions of religiosity in antiquity as well as room for reflection on the relationship of material evidence and religious practices and beliefs in different perspectives.

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